Bank Size and Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Lending: Evidence from China

Bank Size and Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Lending: Evidence from China.

Using panel data collected in 2005, we evaluate how bank size, discretion over credit, incentive schemes, competition, and the institutional environment affect lending to small- and medium-sized enterprises in China. We deal with the endogeneity problem using instrumental variables, and a reduced-form approach is also applied to allow for weak instruments in estimation. We find that total bank ...

Supply Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Role of SME Size

10 Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 12 N°3 2011 www.supplychain-forum.com Seung-Kuk Paik, Ph.D. College of Business and Economics California State University, Northridge, USA [email protected] This article presents the findings of a survey study of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) with regard to their supply management. The main purpose of this article is to underst...

THE IMPACT OF SIZE ON SME PUBLIC SECTOR TENDERING Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) involvement in the marketplace for public sector

Does ownership structure affect trade credit policy in small- and medium-sized firms? Evidence from China

This paper examines whether and how ownership structure affects the trade credit policies in smalland medium-sized firms (SMEs) using a sample obtained from a survey of Chinese enterprises. Specifically, we examine how ownership concentration affects SMEs’ use of trade credit through influencing the availability of bank credit. We also examine whether the ownership of the ultimate controller in...

Enterprise Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

The market for enterprise systems (ES), continues to grow in the post millennium era as businesses become increasingly global, highly competitive, and severely challenged. Although the large enterprise space for ES implementation is quite stagnated, now all of the ES vendors are focusing on the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector for implementations. This study looks at the current ES...